How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

Gail Collins

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[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Gail Collins

Tags: feminism civil-rights leadership ella-baker grassroots-organizing naacp

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